What is kept, what is sent, and how to delete it.

Who runs this.

Worthwatch is run by NexusMKTG.com, LLC, in Boston, Massachusetts, and the data is stored in the United States. Write to Brett Wharton, Founder, at brett@nexusmktg.com with any question about this page.

What we collect, and why.

Your email address

To sign you in with a code, to send the digest and receipts, and to answer you. Kept while your account exists.

Video transcripts

The captions of a video you ask about. The extension sends them from your browser; for the web app and the digest they come from a transcript provider. Analyzed, then discarded, unless you save the verdict on Pro.

Verdicts

The result of each analysis, kept by video id so the next person gets it without a second analysis. A verdict holds the video's title, channel, and length and nothing about who asked.

Your time zone

Read from your browser each time you sign in and stored with your account, so dates in emails, files, and the digest show in your own time. It is a region name such as America/New_York, not your location, and it is kept until you delete your account.

Your channels and digest settings

The channels you follow, your send hour, and when each digest went out. Kept until you delete your account.

Your library

On Pro, the verdicts you save, with their transcripts, until you remove them or delete your account.

Payments

Your plan, the amounts and dates of your purchases, and Stripe's identifiers. Your card details never reach us; Stripe holds them.

Referrals

Clicks on your referral link by day, and the purchases credited to you, by amount and date. You never see who bought.

Technical records

Request logs with addresses and times for 7 days, for security and abuse limits. The free-tier count is kept per account, per extension install, and per address, per day.

A sign-in marker

A cookie that keeps you signed in for 90 days, and a readable marker that tells the page you are signed in. A referral cookie for 60 days when you arrive through a referral link. No analytics cookies and no third-party trackers.

What is sent to other companies, and what they do with it.

The model provider

The transcript and the title are sent to a model provider to produce the verdict. The provider is Anthropic or Cloudflare Workers AI, named on the How it works page. The request carries no account information. Each provider's published terms for its API, as of the date at the top of this page, state that customer data is not used to train its models, and we rely on those terms. If a provider changes that, we will change providers or update this page.

The transcript provider

For the web app's uncached videos and for the digest, a video id is sent to TranscriptAPI.com to fetch the captions, under its own terms. It receives the video id and nothing about you.

The public channel feed

To find a channel's new videos, our server reads the channel's public feed. To find a channel from a handle, it may read the channel's public page once. Neither request carries anything about you, and our server never acts as you on YouTube.

Email

Sign-in codes, receipts, and digests go through Resend, which receives your address and the email's content. Email you send us is read in Google Workspace.

Payments

Stripe handles checkout and holds your card details and billing address under its own privacy policy.

Hosting

The service runs on Cloudflare, which stores the database and files and sees request logs.

We never sell data, share it for advertising, or use it to train a model.

What we do not collect.

Your YouTube account, your watch history, your subscriptions, or your cookies on youtube.com. Anything from pages that are not a video page. Your questions to Ask the video and their answers are sent to the model provider to be answered and are not kept.

How long things are kept.

Account data while the account exists. Transcripts you did not save, not at all after the analysis. Request logs 7 days. Verdicts in the shared cache for as long as they are useful, with nothing personal attached.

Deleting your data, and your rights.

Delete your account from the account page. It removes your email, your time zone, your library and its transcripts, your channels and settings, and every extension session, in one step. Receipts stay for accounting with your name and email removed; Stripe keeps its own record under its privacy policy. Wherever you live, you can ask for a copy of your data, a correction, or deletion by email, and we answer within 30 days. If you use the service from outside the United States, your data comes to the United States.

Children, and changes to this page.

Worthwatch is not for children under 13, and we do not knowingly keep their data; if we learn we have, we delete it. Buying Pro or a Founding seat requires being 18 or having a parent's or guardian's permission. When this page changes, the date at the top changes and the change is described in one line here. Worthwatch is independent and not affiliated with YouTube or Google.